The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-16
THE SCH00L-TEACHERS.
officers and Directors Selected-SubsIance OF
Resolutions Passed By the Meeting.

CHICAGO July 15.-At the National Educa-
tionai convention this morning the following pa
pers were read: 1.-THE Place Manual Training
Should Occupy in the System of Public Schools
(al in Urban Communities and in Large Towns, !"
by Gen. Francis A Walker, President of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston;
fb), s.In Country Districts" by Superintendent
NJ. A. Newell. Baltimore, Nd; (c,. kinds of
Schools to be introduced. and Practical Methods
Of Instruction" by Miss L. A. Fay. Springfield,
Mass, with illustrations. The discussion was
opened by c. W. Woodward, of St. Louis.
The following repoT. of the nominating COM
mittee was adopted:
For president, Aaron Cove of Colorado; for
secretary, James II. Garfield, Of Kansas; for
presidents VIM. e. Sheldon, of Massachusetts,
j. w. Holcombe. of District of Columbus; War
rem Easton. of Louisiana; Scion Palmer, of Ala
bama; Thomas j. Morgan, of Rhode Island:
Rose G. Swart. of Wisconsin; w. r. CARROT. of
Tennessee; A. T. Futrall of Kansas; Fred. NJ.
Campbell. of California; Erwin Shepherd, of
Minnesota: j. T. Buchanan. of Missouri; A. r.
Sabin OF Illinois.
For directors: T. J. Mitchell, Alabama; Jo-
siah Shinn. Arkansas; Ira G. Hoyt. California:
necticut; W. R. Thigpen, Georgia: A. G. Lane,
illinois, W. A. Bell, Indiana; R. g. Sanderson.
Iowa; j. NJ Wilkinson, Kansas w. II. Barthoo-
NEW. Kentucky; Henry Chambers. Louisiana;
j. H. Hanson. Maine; Henry a. Wise. Mary
land; W. A. Mowry Massachusetts; J. NJ B.
HILL Michigan: S. S. Taylor, Minnesota; M. A.
Montgomery, Mississippi; S. S. Laws, Missouri;
Geo. L. Farnham. Nebraska; T. B. Mcdonald.
Nevada; G. G. Rounds. New Hampshire; Robert
Bingham, North Carolina; Joseph Clark. New
Jersey; jerome Allen, New York. G. G. David
son. Ohio; E. o. Lyle Pennsylvania; Il. S. Tar
bell, Rhode Island; S. NJ. Ford, South Carolina;
Wharton s. Jones, Tennessee; Perry B. Penny
baker. Texas; S. S. Brown, West Virginia; j.
L. Buchanan. Virginia; T. c. Chamberlain.
Wisconsin, j. Zamon Richards, District of
Columbia; Charles II. Strauss Arizona; Charles
L. Howard, Montana; w. NJ. Stewart. Utah; J.
C. Churchill Wyoming; George A. Mcfarland,
Dakota.
The report of the committee on resolutions
was read and adopted. The resolutions ask
for more complete enforcement OF school Offices
and politics, the extension of the school year
and the increase of teachers wages in rural dis
tricts; the adoption of some plan whereby meri-
torious teachers, after long service; may be hon.
orably retired; the passage of laws, where nee
essary, to secure attendance at public schools
the rudiments of an English education; the in
crease OF public libraries and the establishment
of closer relation between them and the
schools the fostering of the kindergarten and
the appliance of its spirit and methods to the
lower primary grades; the recognition of the
value of industrial art; more earnest attention,
not only to instruction in the fundamental prin-
ciples or morality, but also to a careful training
of pupils in moral character; increased at
tention to instruction in civics as
special preparation for the duties of
citizenship; the value of musical instruction.
They also specially commend to Congress the
National Bureau of Education as agency of
increasing value and worthy of more liberal
support, and reafirm the conventions con on
OF the urgent necessity of temporary federal aid
in the education of the illiterate masses of the
South. Following are the concluding resolu-
tions
I'VE express our profound interest in the edu-
cation of the Indians heartily commend the
spirit of Hberality shown by Congress in the
matter and call special attention to the impor-
results alreadv achieved
We recommend to tie several State Legislatures
the adoption of laws. first requiring instruction
to be given in all public schools in physiology
and hygiene, with special reference to the in
furious effects upon the human system OF alco-
hol and narcotics; second, laws suppressing the
publication and sale of impure literature; third,
laws forbidding the sale of tobacco to youths"
On motion of Mr.. Mayo, committee of three
were appointed to communicate with the appro-
pirate committee In Congress concerning the res
oution of the convention on the subject OF ma
ional aid To ed ion